The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation and a stop to any new cases.

According to an internal memo, the U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to stop any ongoing leftover litigation from former President Joe Biden’s administration. The document,

The memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last, but it essentially shuts down the civil rights division for at least the first weeks of the Trump administration.

An internal memo directed attorneys to notify leadership of consent decrees that were finalized within the last 90 days. Louisville's was finalized in that time.

The order does not say how long the freeze will last, but it essentially shuts down the division for at least the first weeks of the Trump administration.

The previous administration’s Department of Justice and Louisville signed the agreement last month, but it has not yet been approved by a federal judge.

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration

The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a memo to its civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation originating from the Biden administration and halting the pursuit of any ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation ... Biden administration in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis ...

It said the new administration “may wish to reconsider” such agreements, raising the prospect that it may abandon two consent decrees finalized in the final weeks of the Biden

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership ... administration in Louisville, Kentucky, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Those agreements, reached after investigations found police engaged in civil rights violations, still ...